A 19-year-old patient at Lakewood, Wash.-based Western State Hospital allegedly stomped on a staff member's head about eight times and threatened to kill her Aug. 26, according to The News Tribune.
By Harrison Cook - 8/29/18

Ending a yearslong battle, a judge ordered Iowa City-based University of Iowa to pay the contractor of its new Stead Family Children's Hospital and Hancher Auditorium $21.5 million, plus hundreds and thousands of additional dollars in interest, according to The Gazette.
By Alia Paavola - 8/29/18

The legal battle between a North Carolina hospital and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina continued with new court filings Aug. 20, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.
By Ayla Ellison - 8/28/18

Officials at Butler (Pa.) Health System have notified state and federal investigators about possible misappropriation of funds by one of its former executives, according to the Tribune-Review.
By Ayla Ellison - 8/27/18

HHS' Office of Inspector General published a request for information Aug. 24, seeking input from the public on how the agency can foster care coordination by modifying or adding safe harbors to the Anti-Kickback Statute.
By Ayla Ellison - 8/27/18

Prosecutors say two people who lived in a New Mexico compound that trained children to carry out mass shootings intended to attack Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
By Alia Paavola - 8/27/18

From a physician entering a plea deal for his role in a $60 million fraud scheme to a judge approving Anthem's $115 million data breach settlement, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
By Ayla Ellison - 8/24/18

Crystal Run Healthcare, a multispecialty physician group in Middletown, N.Y., filed a lawsuit Aug. 23 accusing Middletown-based Orange Regional Medical Center, its affiliated physician practice and its parent company of poaching physicians to become the dominant healthcare provider in the region, according to the Times-Herald Record.
By Alyssa Rege - 8/24/18

A physician at Novus, a shuttered hospice provider in Frisco, Texas, has reached a plea deal for his role in a $60 million fraud scheme that federal prosecutors say involved fatally overdosing patients for profit, according to The Dallas Morning News.
By Ayla Ellison - 8/24/18

Authorities arrested the former billing director of a five-state clinic network on two counts of Medicaid fraud Aug. 20, according to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
By Morgan Haefner - 8/23/18

A physician was sentenced to one year and a day in prison for participating in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and the New York State Medicaid Program, according to the Department of Justice.
By Morgan Haefner - 8/22/18

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